Analysis of Arabia
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Far are the shades of Arabia,
Where the Princes ride at noon,
'Mid the verdurous vales and thickets,
Under the ghost of the moon;
And so dark is that vaulted purple
Flowers in the forest rise
And toss into blossom 'gainst the phantom stars
Pale in the noonday skies.
Sweet is the music of Arabia
In my heart, when out of dreams
I still in the thin clear mirk of dawn
Descry her gliding streams;
Hear her strange lutes on the green banks
Ring loud with the grief and delight
Of the dim-silked, dark-haired Musicians
In the brooding silence of night.
They haunt me -- her lutes and her forests;
No beauty on earth I see
But shadowed with that dream recalls
Her loveliness to me:
Still eyes look coldly upon me,
Cold voices whisper and say --
'He is crazed with the spell of far Arabia,
They have stolen his wits away.'
Scheme | ABXBXCXC ADXDXEXE XFXFFGAG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110100 1010111 1011010 1001101 011111010 1000101 01011010101 10011 1101010100 0111111 110011111 10101 10111011 11101001 101111010 00101011 111010010 1101111 1101111 0111 11110011 1101001 111101110100 11101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 824 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 213 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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